Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thompson, noted for the flambuoyant color combinations of his tweedy clothing, talks slowly, with modesty and a quiet wit suggesting the restraint of a New England school teacher. A strong academic strain runs through Thompson's entire career. His father, a New Englander, taught at private schools, and Thompson himself was a professor at Wellesley, the University of California, the University of Virginia, and Princeton before being appointed to the faculty here. In 1935, after three years of research sponsored by the Association of American Colleges, he published an important study on musical education entitled College Music...
From an Eminence. Moscow's Pravda lost no time in proclaiming the Chancellor's action "involuntary," and the combination of abruptness, peevishness and pressure lent some color to the interpretation. Yet after the first public outcry that the West had lost one of its stoutest men at an awkward moment. Adenauer's decision began to appear a wise recognition that he was no longer indispensable. West Germany was no longer just one indomitable man but a strong and prosperous nation of 52 million people...
...Registry was one of the first University housing offices to refuse to list the rooms of discriminatory landlords. Last October the University required every landlord requesting the Registry's aid to sign a statement saying he would rent to any University employees or students "regardless of their race, creed, color, or nationality...
...play may be done live and in color, but it is more probable that both will be video-taped, Henning said. Video-taping is a new process which equals the quality of live telecasting, he explained. The Boston station will carry its program at 6:30 on a Sunday evening, which Henning called "prime" air time, and the New Haven broadcast will be at 6:30 p.m. on a weekday...
...wonder that Heckel's two almost-poetic canvasses express less than they should, that their statement of color is raw, that their organization is dubious. The same equanimity is lacking. Only the idiom is changed. It is no surprise that Schlemmer's canvas lacks the aristocracy of truly resolved expression. One can even understand how Otto Muller's canvas of the gal who lost her Maiden-form, can get by, utterly lacking, as it is, in substance and the very minimum diginity a work of art ought to possess...